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Budget cuts, you're the President.

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Budget cuts, you're the President.
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#31
RE: Budget cuts, you're the President.
October 30, 2011 at 2:03 pm
Hooah?

(money is wasted, but money does need to be spent. In my opinion more money than many have suggested, due to our involvement in international military "intervention", which I understand is arguable.)
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#32
RE: Budget cuts, you're the President.
October 31, 2011 at 7:22 pm
(October 30, 2011 at 1:56 pm)Dotard Wrote:
(October 30, 2011 at 1:33 pm)Cinjin Wrote:
(October 30, 2011 at 10:40 am)Dotard Wrote:
(October 28, 2011 at 10:17 pm)Cinjin Wrote: Fuck 'em. Sell some jets, auction some tanks ... have a fucking bake sale! We don't need them and more importantly, we don't WANT them.

Who is "we" kemosabe?

The majority

I call bullshit. Majority of Americans favor a large, strong and robust military. This Memorial Day, (2010) nearly three-out-of-four Americans (74%) have a favorable opinion of the U.S. military, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey. Just 12% hold an unfavorable opinion, and 13% are not sure.

The majority of Americans are also ignorant to many facts. I bet more than 74% are Christians. Polls are horrible, always take them with a grain of salt.
It would be better for those polled to explain why they support a strong robust military and what it does for them. Then educate them when they say the military is fighting to protect their freedoms, cause thats a load a bs as well.
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#33
RE: Budget cuts, you're the President.
October 31, 2011 at 7:55 pm
I just wish it were constitutional to do what I'd like to do with our democracy.

The Iraq War we've been lied into has cost us so much. The monetary cost alone is over a trillion dollars. As someone who voted Democrat in 2000 and since, I don't appreciate that some of that debt is mine. There needs to be a special dumb ass tax to raise a trillion dollars to pay for their mess.

Those who voted for W in 2000 get a nominal share and be allowed to continue voting if they promise to be more responsible in the future.

Those who voted for him in 2004 get to pay half of the war cost burden and their voting rights will be suspended until they can pass some sort of current events test to prove they can handle the responsibility better in the future.

Those who voted for McCain in 2008 will pay the other half and have their voting rights permanently taken away.
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